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La bataille de Saint-Léonard:
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La bataille de Saint-Léonard:
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Félix Rose’s documentary, La bataille de Saint-Léonard, chronicles the language and education protests of the late 1960s that made national headlines for many months. What began as a local dispute between Italian Montreal parents and members of the Quebec nationalist group Mouvement pour l’intégration scolaire (MIS) over parents’ right to choose the language of education for their children soon exploded into a wider political conflict that demanded the intervention of both the provincial and federal governments. The crisis eventually paved the way for Quebec’s Charter of the French Language (Bill 101), adopted a decade later, that made French the official language of the province and forced immigrant parents to send their children to French schools. The film recounts the story through the personal accounts of two leading activists of the time on opposing sides of the conflict: Raymond Lemieux (1933-2018), a central figure of the MIS, and Mario Barone (1931-2025), an Italian immigrant, borough councillor and real estate developer who helped transform Saint-Léonard from a small farming town into a modern Montreal suburb where Italian immigrants began to settle in the 1960s and 1970s. On the night of September 10, 1969, a riot over the right to choose broke out between Italian parents and the MIS on Jean Talon, the main street running through St. Leonard.
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Picbois Productions
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2024
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Documentary
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Numérique
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108 minutes
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fr
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For a critique of this film, see the article by Anthony Portulese in the Montreal Italian magazine Accenti titled “Félix Rose’s The Battle of Saint-Léonard: A Problematic Portrayal of Montreal’s Italian Community” https://accenti.ca/felix-roses-the-battle-of-saint-leonard-a-problematic-portrayal-of-montreals-italian-community/ |
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Rose, Félix. La bataille de Saint-Léonard: Numérique, Documentary. Picbois Productions, 2024.
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